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  1. Beefbeefbeef
    There's a sausage making forum?! Wonders will never cease. Thanks. I'm just looking for something for the family, I envisage making a few pounds of sausages every few months. Nothing too hardcore.
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    Usually just a bronze brush and oil but I do use Youngs 303 for anything that doesn't shift. It stinks like hell though. I don't know about ATF.
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    Would be interested to hear your suggestions. Thanks BBB
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    I would of thought widgeon would be after mallard ???? If you mean coastal shooting (wildfowling in the strict sense) then I think you're right but this guy is asking about duck shooting generally (inland and coastal) in which case I reckon teal would be 2nd after mallard. I'd be interested to know if there are any stats out there.
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    By far the biggest proportion are mallard and a long way behind them in terms of numbers shot would be teal and then wigeon. Over the course of a season, regular wildfowlers might also bag the occasional shoveller, pintail, goldeneye, tufted duck, gadwall, etc depending on their geographic location.
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    Fellas, I don't want the barrels on their own - I don't have the time, inclination or diy kit to make them up. I'm looking for a supplier of ready-to-go feeders.
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    i have one pond which is large-ish - 0.5 acre - but v shallow so the ducks love it even without feed. However i think you need to feed most ponds to get the best out of them.
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    £18 each did he come and fill them up for you,if you can arrange transport to Scotland you will get three for the price of one, £18 is the going rate. Where are you suggesting?
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    Anyone recommend anywhere I can buy some of those blue barrelled pheasant feeders? The bloke I used to buy them from on Ebay seems to have disappeared although he was decent value - approx £18 each.
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    Sounds good ant. Wonder if there are more about for some reason.
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    Great photo - stirs the blood just looking at it!
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    Would be a good shout normally, dymented, but the pond is an old pit hole so goes deep relatively quickly. Anything fired more than 6 feet off the bank would not get eaten.
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    Anyone got any recommendations on a good brand to go for - and using them generally? Most of them seem to scatter the feed in all directions which would be no good if the feeder is at the side of the pond.
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    Snipe here too although to be fair we had a lot last season with all the rain. Hopefully a good season ahead!
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    Got about 40 or so teal using my pond at the moment, far earlier than usual, which is great. Don't usually see any on the pond (Staffs / Shrops border) until late October. Any theories?
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    Oh oh. 3 replies - 3 different answers. Seems to be the way with gun cleaning posts. Thanks for your thoughts nonetheless.
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    Or will it damage the rifling?
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    My patches would have looked exactly like those last night. Good photo. On a related topic, where do you buy a cleaning brush and is it a soft brush or a wire brush? Is the screw fitting universal like they are with shotguns? cheers
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    What happens after 30 shots?? When you say go off zero, how much, what happens then, do you clean it/leave it/what?? If it is/was new cleaning is important (it's always important in my view but I know a few people who will give you an argument on that). HMR do not go off after 30 rounds, it has to be heat, wind, you are getting tired, etc, but you will have to fire pretty rapidly for heat to have any much effect! Yesterday, after a couple of scope adjustments, I had a nice little pattern of 4 shots on a 50p at 100 yards. By then I had fired about 25 to 30 shots. I switche
  20. Beefbeefbeef
    Fellas Bought a new CZ Silhouette .17 HMR recently, my first rifle after 30 years of shotguns, and still getting to grips with the subtleties. It seems to me that when I'm out and put say 25 - 30 rounds through it at targets, it starts to go off zero. Is that normal and is that due to crud in the barrel or is the barrel getting hot?
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    I have a wind powered one from Cabelas. It is a Lucky Duck brand which had better reviews than the Mojo version. It works well if you need to attract ducks from a distance or are decoying a huge area of open water however I found that by January when the ducks are coming in very late i.e. very dark, they only saw it when they were say 15 to 20 yards away and actually got scared off by it. As Remi said, I would go for the motorised version as the wind ones (obviously) only work in a decent breeze and it's amazing how often the wind drops at dusk leaving you with a stationary decoy!
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    This is cut and pasted from the BASC website - should help: Orders prohibiting the shooting of wildfowl on Sundays made under sections 2 and 13 of the Protection of Birds Act 1954 still in existence are in the following counties (or parts of counties in existence before the 1974 local authority re-organisation): Anglesey, Brecknock, Caernarvon, Carmarthen, Cardigan, Cornwall, Denbigh, Devon, Doncaster, Glamorgan, Great Yarmouth County Borough, Isle of Ely, Leeds County Borough, Merioneth, Norfolk, Pembroke, Somerset, North and West Ridings of Yorkshire.
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    Good idea.
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    Wrong. Rooks are members of the crow family. So a morning shooting crows could involve any member of that family - carrion crows, rooks, jackdaws. Im not wrong ...if you catch a trout you dont say you caught a salmon although it is a member of the salmon family or if you catch a mink you dont call it a weasel although it is a member of the weasel family......... lazy quarry indetification by 3 beef imo MIK - Trout are salmonids, not salmon. Mink are mustelids - although some people describe them as part of the weasel family. Talk to anyone who shoots crows and you'll find that it'
  25. Beefbeefbeef
    Wrong. Rooks are members of the crow family. So a morning shooting crows could involve any member of that family - carrion crows, rooks, jackdaws.
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